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		<title>Missile Watch: Global Update (April &#8211; October 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/11/missile-watch-global-update-april-october-2009.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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Missile Watch
A publication of the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Vol. 2, Issue 2
October 2009
Written by Matt Schroeder and Matt Buongiorno

&#160;
Table of Contents:
Honduras/Mexico: Alleged arms trafficker offered to sell &#8220;17 or 18 surface-to-air missiles,&#8221; claims US informant
Kenya: MANPADS threat affects US air travel to Nairobi
Russia: 20 MANPADS seized from militants in North Caucasus region
Sri Lanka: Terrorist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating New Biosecurity Research Regulations</title>
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		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/debating-new-biosecurity-research-regulations.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Senate consideration of a new biosecurity bill has been delayed to accommodate requests for additional information from the Administration.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Germany and NATO&#8217;s Nuclear Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/germany.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/germany.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hkristensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hans Kristensen]]></category>
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Security personnel monitor nuclear weapons transport at German air base. Image: USAF




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The new German government has announced that it wants to enter talks with its NATO allies about the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany.
The announcement coincides with the Obama administration’s ongoing Nuclear Posture Review, which is spending an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton On Nuclear Preemption</title>
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		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/clinton.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hkristensen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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No preemptive nuclear options, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.




By Hans M. Kristensen
During an interview with Ekho Moskvy Radio last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked if “the American [nuclear] doctrine incorporate[s] preemptive nuclear strikes against an aggressor?”
The Secretary’s answer was: “No, no.”
Ahem….
Secretary Clinton’s denial that U.S. nuclear doctrine incorporates preemptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Asks UN De-Alerting Resolution to Wait</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/dealert-2.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/dealert-2.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hkristensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hans Kristensen]]></category>
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President Barack Obama, here shown speaking to the United Nations in September,
is seeking to delay a UN Resolution calling for De-Alerting Nuclear Forces.




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The Obama administration has asked four countries to postpone a resolution at the United Nations calling for reducing the alert-level of nuclear weapons.
The intervention apparently is intended to avoid the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Misses Warhead Retirement Deadline</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/w62.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hkristensen</dc:creator>
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Retirement of the W62 warhead, seen here at Warren Air Force Base, has been been delayed.




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The Pentagon has missed the deadline set by the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review for the retirement of the W62 nuclear warhead.
Retirement of the warhead, which arms a portion of the 450 U.S. Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documents obtained by FAS shed some light on Viktor Bout case, but key questions remain</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/documents-obtained-by-fas-shed-some-light-on-viktor-bout-case-but-key-questions-remain.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/documents-obtained-by-fas-shed-some-light-on-viktor-bout-case-but-key-questions-remain.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder
Documents provided to the Federation of American Scientists by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York provide additional details about the case against alleged arms trafficker Viktor Bout, but many important questions remain (publicly) unanswered. Below is a brief summary of these documents and their significance.
Background
Viktor Bout and an alleged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAS Obtains Key Report on US Arms Exports</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/fas-obtains-key-report-on-us-arms-exports.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/fas-obtains-key-report-on-us-arms-exports.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deliveries of arms through the Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program decreased by nearly a billion dollars in fiscal year 2008, according to the most recent edition of the Annual Military Assistance Report. The report, which is often referred to as the “Section 655 Report” after the section in the Foreign Assistance Act that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Department Confirms FAS Warhead Estimate</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/confirmation.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/confirmation.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hkristensen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
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Retirement of the W62 warhead will be completed in 2009.




By Hans M. Kristensen
The U.S. State Department has confirmed the estimate made by FAS on this blog in February that the United States had already reached the limit of 2,200 operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads set by the 2002 Moscow Treaty. The confirmation occurred earlier today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Getting It Right:  More Bad Reasons to Have Nuclear Weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/1518.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/07/1518.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Oelrich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently released report, U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century:  Getting It Right, by the ad hoc New Deterrent Working Group with a forward by James Woolsey, is an interesting document.  I believe this report is significant because it might typify the arguments that will be used against arms control treaties in the upcoming [...]]]></description>
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